St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-07

said she had been married to
Seymour sixteen years and was
the mother of five children, two girls
and three boys. the Oldest a boy thir
in .Gainsboro, Yorkshire, England. of
which country they were both natives,
Seymour following the, business of "a
coal miner in the mines of Cornwall.
Thirteen years ago this month Seymour
and his wife left England and came to
America, locating in Stark county, Illi-
nOiS, where he WENT into the mines to
work. Seven years ago he was ordained
a minister and took his first charge
at Algonquin, McHenry county, Ill.
Later he came west and presided over
the parishes at tLuverne. Slayton, James
vile and other Minnesota towns. Mrs.
Seymour denied with considerable en-
phaSis that her absent husband had
ever been delinquent in paying over the
money donated by his church for the
support of the presiding elder, and said
she had known him to take money ont
of his own pocket and make up def
cheney in the amount his church had
been assessed When he left the town
with Mrs. Henry he took about S21 that
belonged to the missionary fund, but
Mrs. Seymour says he will make this
good before it is due, which is Oct. II,
the date of the meeting of conference.
She says he was man always particu-
lar to pay his debts and she knows he
will return the mission money. Her
man and had a fair understanding of
the Hebrew and Latin languages, but
was not well enough acquainted with
these branches to teach them, and coil-
sequently the story that he had ruined
young girl fourteen years of age, who
had been placed under his tuition in
the dead languages, was a base lie. No
girl had been placed in his charge since
they were married. Furthermore. the
wife denied all the reports that he had
been driven out of towns for getting
mixed up too closely with the sisters of
his congregation. He preached at
Slayton fifteen months and was well
liked. During his ministry at Luverne
he had some trouble with the W. c.
t. U. They insisted on taking his
church for their services Sunday even
ings without giving him notice, and
he demonstrated. This precipitated
general fight, which resulted in "a
church trial. The church at Luverne
split, the two factions siding with Sey-
mour and the w. g. II. U. respectively,
and the result, according to Mrs. Sey-
mOur, was that her husband wasn't
paid his salary and he was obliged to
run in debt for the neceSSarieS of life.
To raise money to pay this debt was the
reason he gave his wife for selling his
house and cottage three days before he
skipped the town with Mrs. Henry.
The trouble In the GAINESVILLE church
started through J. A. Henry and few
others insisting that the members of the
Good Templar society should be taken
into the church. This proposition was
opposed by Seymour, whose view of the
question was warmly supported by Mrs.
Henry, and this engendered bad feel
| ing between Henry and Seymour. Mrs
| Seymour said she believed that Mrs
| Henry met her husband more than half
way in the liaison that they formed,
claiming that he was an indulgent huS-
band, a kind father, and was completely
wrapped up in his family, but he was
of nervous temperament and had an
inherent weakness for women, which
had heretofore gotten him into
trouble, but he had never be-
fore gone with women who were
not of doubtful character He
is a man susceptible of flattery and
easily discouraged or lifted up, and in
her opinion Mrs. Henry took an unfair
advantage of his weakness. For sew
eral weeks before the elopement Sey-
mOuf nau been suffering from nervous
| prostration, and while on a visit to the
residence of Mrs. Henry one day he
was taken suddenly i'll and Mrs. Henry
administered to his wants and Mrs. Sey-
mour didn't know his Whereabouts,
when by chance she heard that he was
at the Henry residence. She went over
there and found Mrs Henry performing
the offices of a dutiful wife. Mrs. Sey-
mour insisted on taking her husband
home, but Mrs. Henry wouldn't listen
to it. until Mrs. Seymour threatened to
call in one of the brethren. Mrs. Henry
then gave him up. On this occasion
Mrs. Seymour said she told Mrs Henry
and her husband that it would
be a blessing to them if
he stayed away from that
house. but Mrs. Henry laughed at her,
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